Easy PHP Websites with the Zend Framework Part 3

Notes from Skype call with Jason Gilmore on June 21, 2011:

Easy PHP Websites with the Zend Framework (2011)
by W.J. Gilmore

Note that square brackets []are used where <> are normally used. This is because blogger doesn't like HTML in posts.

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Chapter 2, page 34

If short tags are disabled in your php.ini file, you'll have to use:

[title][?php echo $this-]pageTitle; ?][/title]

instead of

[title][?= $this-]pageTitle; ?][/title]

Short tags not really bad as rumored ... advocated by author.

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Chapter 3, page 45

Under "Managing Views" the author writes:

"When a controller action is invoked, the Zend Framework's default behavior is to look for an appropriately named action to return as a response."

He may have meant "...appropriately named view ..."

If having trouble overriding the default action view, try:

$this-]_helper-]viewRenderer('alternate');

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Chapter 3, page 46

Unresolved issue -- overriding the default action view path doesn't seem to work.

My intent was to override the view associated with About/contact and use the view associated with Index/index. From the contactAction() within the AboutController:

$this-]view-]setScriptPath('/application/views/scripts/index/');
$this-]view-]render('index.phtml');

which throws an application error. So does:

$this-]view-]setScriptPath('/application/views/scripts/index/');
$this-]_helper-]viewRenderer('index');

Hard to follow ZF documentation on this issue:


Config issue ... not really something you'd need to do. Action -> view.

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GameNomad companion website INSTALL.txt, Step #2

Revisions from the author --

After running the following command;

$ git clone git://github.com/doctrine/doctrine2.git doctrine2-orm

Enter the directory (which should be doctrine2-orm) and execute the
following command:

$ git submodule update --init (that is two dashes before the init)

Looks like Doctrine2 requires the submodules to be manually installed,
they probably did this for efficiency's sake, when I wrote that
chapter I was using a bleeding-edge Doctrine2 release so maybe they
were stuffing everything in for simplicity's sake. I'll get the
install document updated, thanks for pointing this out.

Note -- The Doctrine website now includes these instructions on their website.

Continue with the remaining instructions in Step #2.
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GameNomad companion website INSTALL.txt, Step #6

If you're getting PHP errors when pointing your browser to the
GameNomad companion website, try using the absolute paths for the
Doctrine configurations. For example:

resources.entityManager.connection.entities =
"/usr/local/zend/apache2/www/gamenomad/application/models"
resources.entityManager.connection.proxies.location =
"/usr/local/zend/apache2/www/gamenomad/application/models/Proxies"
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GameNomad companion website INSTALL.txt, Step #7

The script "seed.php" fails. Issue still not resolved.

Does "seed.php" use any of the configs/application.ini configs?

Partial resolution provided in follow-up post.
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Chapter 5, page 67

Try getPost() instead of getValue():

public function loginAction() {
$form = new Application_Model_FormLogin();

if ($this-]getRequest()-]isPost()) {

$email = $this-]_request-]getPost('email');
$pswd = $this-]_request-]getPost('pswd');

echo "

Your e-mail is {$email}, and password is {$pswd}

";

}

$this-]view-]form = $form;

}

Look at gamenomad code! see wjgilmore/gamenomad.com

getPost() shouldn't work with filters!

wont work: $email = $this-]_request-]getValue('email');

will work: $email = $form-]getValue('email'); specific to using form filters.

will validate, not filter.

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Chapter 6, page 88 and 89

Instead of the code that starts at the bottom of the page, try:

zf configure db-adapter \
'adapter=PDO_MYSQL&host=%&username=root&password=good98&dbname=tables' production